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Fort San Pedro in Cebu City, Cebu
CebuFort San Pedro in Cebu City
Portofino and its bay from the hillside, Portofino
PortofinoPortofino and its bay from the hillside

Photos: Cebu by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Portofino by Michal Osmenda, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Cebu or Portofino?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Cebu for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Cebu’s own page.

Choose Portofino for

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Portofino’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Cebu and Portofino are level on 60.
Food & drink. Cebu 58, Portofino 36: Cebu leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Cebu 40, Portofino 22: Cebu leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Cebu 46, Portofino 14: Cebu leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cebu 60, Portofino 77: Portofino leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Cebu 44, Portofino 76: Portofino leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Cebu 45, Portofino 33: Cebu leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Cebu 26, Portofino 50: Portofino leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Cebu 44, Portofino 29: Cebu leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Cebu 80, Portofino 9: Cebu leads by 71 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cebu 25, Portofino 7: Cebu leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cebu 50, Portofino 42: Cebu leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cebu and Portofino.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Cebu
Best match
48match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Portofino
38match

Wins on day trips and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Cebu in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
205 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Portofino in July

27 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
32 mmrain in the month
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Portofino's temperatures are measured 31 km from the centre, at Genova / Sestri.

Portofino has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cebu: 1991-2020 normals, Mactan (7.1 km from centre). Portofino: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (31 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCebuPortofino
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishItalian
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation135 m20 m
Main airportMactan Cebu International Airport (CEB)9 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)32 km from centre25 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCebuPortofino
City population965,332355
People per km²3,065142
Museums within 10 km514
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.